Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1887-01-20
NEWS SUMMARY.

Tuesday morning By an eartbqu Ike,
which lasted seven seconds. No dam
| age reported.
The conjecture has been made that
Prof. B. 6chaf, who 8uiciGed in the
Cincinnati jill Tuesday, was one of the
Chicago bOmb-throwors.
Robert A. Steele, q commission mer.
chant at the Union stock yards, ST. Lou
is, was shot and killed about 10 o'clock
Tuesday morning by Y. R. Marsteller,
trader about the yards.
DR.. William Perry, the oldest gradu-
ate Of Harvard college, died this morn
ing, aged ninety eight. He was the
sole survivor of the passengers Of Full
tons first steamboat ride down the Had
son river, seventy nine years ago. He
was born in Norton, Mass, in 1888, anu
was member Of the class Of 1911, in
Harvard
Rev. Neuilel of the Trinity Lutheran
church in Oshkosh, Wis, announced
from the pulpit sunday that next Sun
day he would preach a sermon devoted
entirely TO the Knights Of Labor and if,
after that, the members of the church
persisted in belonging to that order he
would expel them from the church.
A composition of the new English
cabinet was announced Monday evening
Lord Salisbury Is secretary Of the state
for foreign affairs; Right Honorable ".
Il. Smith, first lord treasurer; Right
| Hon. G. J. Goschen, chancellor of ex-
chequer; Right Hon Edward StanhOpe,
secretary of state for war, and Sir Hen
ry Holland, secretary for colonies.
there IS no change In the other cabinet
officers.
At 3 o'clock Monday morning the
building owned by T. L. Barrett, at
Louisville, KY, was burned, the dam
age amouAting to $4,000; insured for
100000. S. T, Morse & Co, who occu-
pied the building as a furniture, auction
and commission firm, incurred dam
age to the amount of $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
BY the death of a cousin named
James Thompson, in Ballert, Australia,
fortune OF over million pounds bas
been left to Alex Crawford, Of Duluth,
Mimi, and his four brothers, giving
them each nearly 100000. Crawford
had not seen his cousin IN forty years.
Alice Oates, the we'll known comic
opera singer, died Monday evening at
| ME residence of her husband, in PhiI2-
| delphia. after a long illness
Judge Barrett in the New York Su- |
preme court Monday denied the motion
for change of venue in the case OF
Jacob Sharpe, who was indicted for |
brlbing aldermen to pass the Broad
way railroad franchise.
John Roach, the great ship builder,
died at 5 o'clock Monday morning in
New York. The funeral will luke |
place on Thursday at ii A. NJ. from St.
Paurs Methodist Episcopal church.
The interment will be in the family
plat.
The receipts Of merchandise at the
Platt>mouth depot in 1885 amounted to
907 cars, and shipments 1908 cars.
Saturday morning in the Ohio south
ern railroad machine and car shops
burned in Springfield, Ohio, Six loco
| motives, two cars and valuable machin
cry and buildings were destroyed. Loss,
$4,000; fully insured.
The committee from the brewers pool
and the brewers union, Of ST. Louis set
tied all their differences Saturday and
the strike, which was begun last Sep
TENDER, by the members OF the latter
| has been ended.
VIM. II. Wallace, assistant superinten-
| dent Of the n. Y. N. II. s. H. railroad
and S. P. Opdyke, superi ltendent Of the
n. II. & n. w. railroad were fined $50
each Saturday by Judge P .ckett at New
Haven, Conn, for black listing Thomas
F. Meany. The judge regards it as IL
legal for two or more corporations to have
a mutual understanding that man not
approved By one should not be employed
by another.
Capt. Lemon received additional sub
scriptions to the Logan fund, which have
not heretofore been acknowledged, IS
follows: Cash, Illinois, $500; Clarke
E. Carr, Galesburg, H., $50; John r
McShane, Omaha, Ne5., $1,000; John
Thurston, Omaha, NeO., $1,000; John
Thurston, Omaha, Neo., $500; l. Mill
ken, Decatur. H., 5000; c. B. Grubb,
Burlington, N. j.. $500, and several mi
nor sums from the grand army posts,
aggregatlng IN all 1855.
The county treasurer, at Cleveland,
Ohio, Thursday seized the effects of
twenty saloon-keepers who have not paid
their Dow law tax. the Easements OF
the two court houses are stored with
barrels and bottles of liquors and saloon
keepers stock in general. The section
of the law making the tax lien upon
the property where the saloon Is situateo